And, contrary to what the EastCoastlibrulmedia would have
you believe, there’s a brood singing out here in central Utah, too. Last weekend we collected
~50, sautéed them with olive oil, shallots, basil, and had them in tacos.

There
are other recipes all over internets. If you’re curious, you might start here.

ex: 26,000 google hits for “cicadapocolypse,” 12,000 for “cicadapocalypse,”
and 6,000 for “cicadageddon.”

(I refuse to even search “cicadagate” or
“cicadapalooza.”)

In the zombie-epic-superhero-media-saturated wake of “snowzilla,”
“snowpocalypse,” “obamacare,” “beghazigate,” “snowbamapocalypse,” and so on, it
seems we have run clear out of material for silly, overdramatized portmanteaus.

4. and public assembly, evidently

“When Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the
protesters in the streets of Istanbul plunderers (çapulcu in Turkish) on June
2, he contributed a new verb to the English language.… And the new English verb
was born: to chapul.”

“When a defiant Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
described the protestors as ‘Capulcu’ (pronounced ‘CHA-pul-dju’ and roughly
translated to ‘riffraff’), instead of taking it as an insult, the protestors
embraced their newfound labels with pride. Overnight, the word morphed from an
insult to a compliment. … The root of the Turkish noun (Capul) was then
converted into a verb by adding the English suffix ‘ng,’ creating a neologism
(Capulling) that now means ‘standing up for your rights.’”